On 15th August 1947 India became independent. The Indian Independence Act as per 1947, gth schedule, the British government’s Indian native Provinces were given the freedom of choosing whether to join India or Pakistan. If any province didn’t combine with , any of the two nations it could remain an independent state.

If this was not allowed, India would have separated in many small divisions and India’s unity would be compromised. Contemporary Indian government’s political department that controlled the nation till then was ended and on 5th July 1947, the Province Secretariat was formed in Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel’s presidentship.

Province Secretariat wished merger or integration of all small and large provinces. These provinces were merged in a manner that from language, culture and geographical boundary’s perspective a united state was developed.

The Primary effort in the formation of Rajasthan : During the attainment of independence, Rajasthan had 22 small and large provinces. Other than this, Ajmer-Marwara’s small territory was under direct central rule. All these provinces and British areas were to be combined into one united state and this was extremely difficult problem. In September 1946, All India National State People’s Council took decision that combined Rajasthan in one unit form should get included in Indian Confederation.

Here Indian government province secretrait took decision that in independent India whose only those provinces can place their separate identity whose income would be 1 crore annually and population more than 10 lacs. According to this measure, in Rajasthan only Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur and Bikaner could fulfil the condition.

Rajasthan’s small provinces were able to expereience that in independent India, it was good to be as together independent units was but due to historical and other reasons, the rulers had non-belief and jealously for one another. The main problems of provinces in Rajasthan : 

Rajasthan’s main provinces had following problems.

1. After independence and division, the religious rights were main problem. In Alwar and Bharatpur Mev castes problems again came up. 

2. Jodhpur’s geographical and societal situation was extremely important and Jodhpur’s probable inclusion in Pakistan. It was also a hot topic. 

3. The Maharana of Mewar and the feudal lords due to their glorious historical traditions were not interested to merge in the confederation. 

4. Bikaner being a border state, was an extremely important state for India. In the changing political seenario, the Mewar Maharana on 25th June 1946 in Jaipur, organised a summit of Rajasthan kings. The agenda was to make a confederation. All rulers had different opinions.

The Maharana’s plan did not fructify. In a similar manner, the ruler of Dungarpur tried unsuccessfully to build Bhagat State (Dungarpur, Hanswada, Pratapgarh), Jaipur and Kota rulers’ efforts were also unsuccessful in forming unions.

As a consequence, Indian government’s province department combined all provinces together for the formation of United Rajasthan. For this great intelligence, farsightedness, patience and diplomacy was required and this is why this work was gradually done with lot of precaution.